Peter Sloterdijk Quotes

The stakes in this game are not low. Our enterprise is no less than the introduction of an alternati...

Give up your attachment to comfortable ways of living - show yourself in the gymnasium (gymnos = 'na...

In truth, the crossing from nature to culture and vice versa has always stood wide open. It leads ac...

What the poet has to say to the torso of the supposed Apollo, however, is more than a note on an exc...

The history of the own that is grasped on too small a scale and the foreign that is treated too badl...

Hence there is no free admission to the process of enlightenment - it is always paid at a psycho-tra...

Cultural criticism always attacks the mass media. I don't think that makes sense. We should look mor...

What early Christianity meant by 'faith' (pistis) was initially nothing other than running ahead and...

The Enlightenment, finally, invented progressive 'history' as an inner-worldly purgatory in order to...

We are in an outside that carries inner worlds.

We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism back to the model of a ...

Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. I...

It is clear enough that not every something can be elevated to the rank of a thing - otherwise every...

How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable an...

This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, tha...

As in the days of the first Merovingian, who pledged allegiance to the cross because of a victorious...

I am already living, but something is telling me with unchallengeable authority: you are not living ...

The reason for the existence of the perfection conjured up in these fourteen lines is that it posses...

Viewed in this light, life itself appears as a dynamics of integration that is equipped with auto-th...

The aesthetic construct, and nothing else, has taught us to expose ourselves to a non-enslaving expe...

...only very few - only humans, as far as we know - achieve the second level of transcendent movemen...

Via the mediation of the Enlightenment, this movement had changed from a hobby among a tiny literate...

If Enlightenment in a technical sense is the programmatic word for progress in the awareness of expl...

In his field, and with his means, Rilke carries out an operation that one could philosophically desc...

As we know, Rilke, under the influence of Auguste Rodin, whom he had assisted between 1905 and 1906 ...

In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of openin...

[Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered...

Wherever one encounters members of the human race, they always show the traits of a being that is co...